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Intuit, Inc. provides innovative business and financial management solutions for small businesses, consumers, accounting professionals and financial institutions. Its flagship products and services that include QuickBooks, TurboTax and Quicken help customers solve important business and financial management problems, such as running a small business, paying bills, filing income taxes, or managing personal finances. The company's ProSeries and Lacerte provides tax preparation offerings for professional accountants. Its Financial Services business provides digital banking solutions to banks and credit unions. The company operates its business through four categories: Small Business Group, Tax, Financial Services and Other Businesses. The Small Business Group segment operates through three segments: Financial Management Solutions, Employee Management Solutions, and Payment Solutions. The Financial Management Solutions segment includes QuickBooks financial and business management software and services; technical support; financial supplies; and Intuit Websites, which provides website design and hosting services for small and medium-sized businesses. The Employee Management Solutions segment provides payroll products and services for small businesses. The Payment Solutions segment provides merchant services for small businesses, including credit and debit card processing, electronic check conversion and automated clearing house services. The Tax segment operates through two segments: Consumer Tax and Accounting Professionals. The Consumer Tax segment includes TurboTax income tax preparation products and services for consumers and small businesses. The Accounting Professionals segment includes Lacerte, ProSeries and ProLine Tax Online professional tax products and services. This segment also includes QuickBooks Premier Accountant Edition and the QuickBooks ProAdvisor Program for accounting professionals. The Financial Services segment consists primarily of outsourced online financial management solutions for banks and credit unions provided by its Intuit Financial Services business. The Other Businesses segment includes Quicken personal finance products and services, Mint.com online personal finance services, Intuit Health online patient-to-provider communication solutions, and company businesses in Canada, the United Kingdom, India and Singapore. Intuit was founded by Scott D. cook and Thomas A. Proulx in 1983 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA. More »

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So when he signed in to his TurboTax account last week, he was more than a little bit surprised to read »

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